Guild Wars 2

Mobs reset/regen health in the middle of fights when they shouldn’t (during legit fights.) Whenever I see a review or pro/con list in the forums I never see this situation mentioned.

It drives me crazy. Often causing me to log (ragequit) for the day. I like to solo, and I like to play elusive/ranged classes so this happens to me a TON. If you main a tanky class or always run with a group you might not run into this situation much if at all.

It seems there is some dumb code that if the mob is getting hit, and doesn’t get to attack for more than 10 seconds or something, then it resets. Which is dumb. What if I’m just skilled at evading and kiting? I’ve even had this happen to my mesmer, where the mob was hitting my clones, but it still reset (was a champ, after a couple minutes into soloing it.)

It mostly happens with vets and champs. But occasionally linked groups of mixed to normal mobs too. Like with the power nodes and the current living story. I’ve solo’d about 10 of them so far, but came upon one (which i had solo’d yesterday) that reset on me 6-8 times in a row. Couldn’t kill one freaking mob for some reason. Just kept resetting with super health regen, like 5 seconds into the fight. Drove me nuts.

I am aware some mobs are tied to certain locations and will reset if kited out of them. I’m not even talking about that (although that is stupid as well.)

PS I have a guild. Don’t tell me to get a group. I do group on occasion. Soloing is just a big part of my play style.

With D/D learn to do what I call melee kiting. That is moving and dodging to stay just out of melee range 80% of the time. Most of your skills are slightly longer than most mobs melee and/or are faster activating.

Each attunement gives you an ability or two to do this, fire and lightning give you speed, water and earth give you slows and a stun.

Don’t be afraid to interrupt a skill if you’re going to take damage by standing still. Use auto attack only as a quick follow up from your other skills.

Once you get this down you can easily solo huge groups, so long as they don’t have too much range dmg.

What if conjured weapons were entities that attacked on their own and followed you around a short while (but weren’t targetable/have hps/and can’t get aggro unlike normal pets/minions) while correspondingly giving you a buff of some sort. Like shield could give you vit/tough, hammer prec, etc.

In this way you wouldn’t lose your skills, and if you got into a situation that required a change in specialty, you could conjure your floating weapon and become more whatever.

The skills might even correspond to what number you push, so 1 auto attack, would also cause the conjured to auto attack. Or it could just do its own thing. I dunno. Obviously the numbers would need to be toned way down since you’d have your own skill damage on top of it. But that shouldn’t be too hard.

What do you think?

Leaderboards, genius. Thanks.

Without going into game? I used to play, don’t have it installed atm, my friend is trying it and wants to know what sever to make his characters on in case I come back….is there a way to tell in account management or something where my characters are? Without having to DL and install the game? Thanks.